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Thou Art But A Youth

• 1 Samuel 1733

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God's Use Of Young People

• David To deliver Israel from the Philistines
• Even though he (David) was but a youth. - 1
  Samuel 1733

3
God's Use Of Young People

• Joseph To save Israel in time of famine
• Joseph seventeen when sold as a slave to
  Potiphar. Genesis 372

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God's Use Of Young People

• Josiah To restore Judah to the true worship of
  God
• When eight, Josiah became king - 2 Chronicles
  341-2
• When sixteen, he sought to serve God 2
  Chronicles 343
• When twenty, he instituted religious reforms
  throughout Judah - 2 Chronicles 343
• When twenty-six, he restored the temple, and the
  Passover - 2 Chronicles 348 3518-19

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God's Use Of Young People

• Daniel To reveal the sovereignty of God over the
  nations
• Daniel, was possibly twelve to fifteen when taken
  into Babylonian captivity - Daniel 13-5
• He was fifteen to eighteen when brought to
  Nebuchadnezzar and began serving as his counselor
  - Daniel 118-20

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God's Use Of Young People

• Timothy To proclaim the gospel to the lost
• Selected by Paul to join him on his journeys -
  Acts 161-3
• Twenty years later that Paul tells him to let no
  one despise his youth! 1 Timothy 412
  Philippians 220

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Thou Art But A Youth

• 1 Samuel 1733

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The Kind Of Young People God Can Use

• Those willing to flee immorality
• Joseph Genesis 397-12
• Timothy - 2 Timothy 222

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The Kind Of Young People God Can Use

• Those willing to trust in God
• David cf. 1 Samuel 1737, 45-47
• David later said, As for God, his way is
  perfect The word of Jehovah is tried He is a
  shield unto all them that take refuge in him. 2
  Samuel 2231

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The Kind Of Young People God Can Use

• Those willing to seek the Lord with humility
• Josiah, when he was eight years old - 2
  Chronicles 343 cf. verses 26-28

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The Kind Of Young People God Can Use

• Those willing to be true to their convictions...
• Daniel, who refused to compromise his beliefs
  Daniel 18-9
• Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego Daniel 31-6, 17,
  20-21, 25

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Our Responsibility To The Young

• Don't place stumbling blocks in their way
  Matthew 185-7
• Encourage them 1 Corinthians 1610-11
• Despise them not 1 Timothy 412

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Conclusion

• Jesus was 12 when he was about his Fathers
  business. Luke 241-49
• Are we about our Father's business?